If you're a challenger, you're limited to 7,000 a person, which is really difficult to raise enough money to run in Texas. But that's the way they designed it. McCain Feingold was designed to protect even terrible senators that are representing a state like Texas, designed to make sure they never lost. But this one is going to be different. John Cornyn, with all that money, with all those lies, is still behind and may finish third. Yeah, that would be embarrassing. (09:06–09:15)
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